POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: Spoken languages in the past: Re: Spoken languages in the past

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Spoken languages in the past : Re: Spoken languages in the past		Server Time 29 Jul 2024 10:28:29 EDT (-0400)

From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 29 Apr 2012 20:27:10
Message: <4f9ddc5e@news.povray.org>

On 4/29/2012 10:38 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/29/2012 0:56, Stephen wrote:
>> I would say that Beowulf is Old English so it is not surprising that it
>> sounds like a mix between Old Norse and German, it is.
>
> I'm still with Warp on this one, tho. I want to know how they know this
> is what it sounded like. :-) How does someone know what a language
> sounded like when nobody still speaks it?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_phonology has some info on this.

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